(Grand Rapids, Mich.) – The Aquinas College Contemporary Writers Series presents author, musician, and performance poet Debra Marquart. As the author of The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories, From Sweetness, and The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere, Marquart’s works have appeared in numerous journals such as The North American Review, The Sun Magazine, Southern Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, and Witness. Her numerous awards include the John Guyon Nonfiction Award, the Mid-American Review Nonfiction Award, the Pearl Poetry Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a 2008 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship.

Marquart currently teaches at the Iowa State University MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment and the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA Program.

Aquinas College Contemporary Writers Series presents: Debra Marquart
Date/Time: February 17, 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Location: Aquinas College, Wege Center Ballroom
This event is free and open to the public.